Toxic wasteland: Horror stories are true!
Toxic wasteland: Horror stories are true!
Pay well above average for new hires, but no growth for old hires. Promoted people receive no perks or benefits.
- Long work hours
- No perks & benefits
- High operational load: Working on weekends and odd hours
- Expectation to work outside work hours
- PIP is used as a stick to keep everyone in line
- Changing teams could lead to PIP
- Trying to change teams could lead to PIP
- Know people losing loved ones and getting Pipped after a month
- Bad coding standards and principles
- Toxic
- Managers are required to not inform you about being in focus (first stage of PIP); they try to surprise you with the decision to PIP or leave the company.
Remove URA, respect WLB.
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Software Development Engineer II
Started with an online assessment and then, upon clearing it, moved on to a four-round on-site interview loop. This included three rounds with the team and one round with the bar raiser.
Software Development Engineer II
5 rounds of interviews: 1. OA (2 Medium/Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts) 2. HLD 3. DSA 4. LLD 5. Bar Raiser Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you s
Software Development Engineer II
Normal format with one OA and four rounds: two coding, one system design, and one low-level system design. Medium to hard level LeetCode questions. The low-level system design round had a common question requiring the use of the decorator pattern.
Software Development Engineer II
United StatesSeptember 2, 2025Started with an online assessment and then, upon clearing it, moved on to a four-round on-site interview loop. This included three rounds with the team and one round with the bar raiser.
Software Development Engineer II
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaSeptember 1, 20255 rounds of interviews: 1. OA (2 Medium/Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts) 2. HLD 3. DSA 4. LLD 5. Bar Raiser Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you s
Software Development Engineer II
San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 15, 2025Normal format with one OA and four rounds: two coding, one system design, and one low-level system design. Medium to hard level LeetCode questions. The low-level system design round had a common question requiring the use of the decorator pattern.
